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Some American Companies Have No Future

Posted: December 3, 2012 at 6:47 am

No matter how sad the forecast, the year's results for a few large America companies, the conditions of competition in their markets and the malaise that has draped much of ...
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Mobile Chip Makers Dodge Shorts (INTC, AMD, QCOM, ARMH, MU, SNDK, BRCM, MRVL, NVDA, TXN, AMAT, SMH)

Posted: November 28, 2012 at 7:19 am

We have tracked the key short interest changes as of November 15 in the following semiconductor leaders: Intel Corp. (NASDAQ: INTC), Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (NYSE: AMD), Micron Technology Inc. ...
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A Microsoft Smartphone

Posted: November 2, 2012 at 6:12 am

The media is filled with rumors that Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) has tested its own smartphone. The move has many disadvantages, but Microsoft should ignore those. There are many advantages if Redmond takes this ...
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Mark Hurd Could Not Have Saved HP

Posted: October 4, 2012 at 6:19 am

There is an emerging body of opinion that if the Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ) board had not fired former CEO Mark Hurd then the company would have avoided the operational problems ...
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Samsung, Google Lead in Mobile Market Share

Posted: October 2, 2012 at 1:20 pm

According to August data published today by comScore Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), the mobile handset market share leader continues to be Samsung Electronics, followed by LG Electronics, Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL), ...
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Another Sign that PCs are Losing Ground

Posted: September 14, 2012 at 2:32 pm

Shipments of dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) chips to the PC industry have fallen below 50% for the first time since the 1980s according to new data from IHS iSuppli released ...
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Smartphone Shipments to Top a Billion in 2016

Posted: September 12, 2012 at 9:18 am

Now that the German Constitutional Court has approved Germany’s participation in the European Central Bank’s bond-buying program, we can turn our attention to the really big news for today -- ...
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Is the iPhone the Only Product That Can Add 0.5% to GDP?

Posted: September 11, 2012 at 6:34 am

A JP Morgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) analyst speculated that sales of the new Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPhone 5 could add "between 0.25% and 0.5% to annualized economic growth in the ...
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IDC Names Top PC Makers for Q2 (HPQ, DELL, AAPL)

Posted: September 10, 2012 at 4:25 pm

Research firm IDC has named the top PC makers for the second quarter of 2012. The top 5 global makers are: Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ), 13.4 million units shipped, 15.5% ...
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The Best Companies of the First Half

Posted: September 7, 2012 at 6:24 am

The end of summer stock market run-up pushed the S&P 500 index above 1,400, a 12% gain year-to-date. But are businesses better off in 2012 than in 2011? To find ...
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Google Shares Well Short of All-Time High

Posted: August 31, 2012 at 6:08 am

The stock prices of Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) and Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) reach all-time highs almost every day. The third member of the club of tech companies that is ...
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Lexmark Quits Inkjet Printer Business

Posted: August 28, 2012 at 8:43 am

Computer printer maker Lexmark International Inc. (NYSE: LXK) announced today that it will leave the inkjet printer business. The company expects to eliminate its inkjet development by the end of ...
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Apple the Most Valuable Company — Ever

Posted: August 20, 2012 at 1:47 pm

When shares of Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) hit an intra-day high of $664.74 earlier today, the company’s market cap hit $623 billion. That topped the previous record market cap of ...
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JDS Uniphase Tops Estimates, Guides Inline (JDSU, OPLK, OCLR, FNSR, EXFO)

Posted: August 14, 2012 at 4:27 pm

JDS Uniphase Corp. (NASDAQ: JDSU) reported adjusted fourth fiscal quarter EPS of $0.15 and $439.3 million in revenues before markets opened this morning. In the same period a year ago, ...
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Samsung’s Smartphone Market Share Slides in June

Posted: August 1, 2012 at 11:13 am

The latest rankings are out from comScore Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR) on the US smartphone device and platform markets. Samsung Electronics (OTC: SSNLF) leads the device makers with a 25.6% market ...
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